EastEnders: Back to Ours - Netflix

Some of the more famous cast members of the soap 'EastEnders' relive
their characters favourite and perhaps not-so-favourite moments from the
show.

Type: Variety

Languages: English

Status: Running

Runtime: None minutes

Premier: 2015-01-27

EastEnders: Back to Ours - Barbara Windsor - Netflix

Dame Barbara Windsor, (born Barbara Ann Deeks; 6 August 1937) is an
English actress, known for her appearances in the Carry On films and for
playing Peggy Mitchell in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders. She joined
the cast of EastEnders in 1994 and won the 1999 British Soap Award for
Best Actress, before finally leaving the show in 2016. Windsor began her
career on stage in 1950 at the age of 13 and made her film debut in The
Belles of St Trinian's (1954). She received a BAFTA Award nomination for
the film Sparrows Can't Sing (1963), and a Tony Award nomination for the
1964 Broadway production of Oh, What A Lovely War!. In 1972, she starred
opposite Vanessa Redgrave in the West End production of The Threepenny
Opera. Between 1964 and 1974, she appeared in nine Carry On films,
including Carry On Spying (1964), Carry On Doctor (1967), Carry On
Camping (1969), Carry On Henry (1971) and Carry On Abroad (1972). She
also co-presented the 1977 Carry On compilation That's Carry On!. Other
film roles include A Study in Terror (1965), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(1968), and as the voice of Mallymkun -The Dormouse in Alice in
Wonderland (2010) and Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).

EastEnders: Back to Ours - Background - Netflix

Windsor was born in Shoreditch, London, in 1937 (her birth was
registered in Stepney), the only child of John Deeks, a costermonger,
and his wife, Rose (née Ellis), a dressmaker. Windsor is of English and
Irish ancestry. She passed her 11-plus exams gaining a place at Our
Lady's Convent in Stamford Hill. Her mother paid for her to have
elocution lessons, and she trained at the Aida Foster School in Golders
Green, making her stage debut at 13 and her West End debut in 1952 in
the chorus of the musical Love From Judy. She took the stage name
Windsor in 1953, inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Her
first film role was in The Belles of St Trinian's released in 1954. She
joined Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal,
Stratford East, coming to prominence in their stage production Fings
Ain't Wot They Used T'Be and Littlewood's film Sparrers Can't Sing
(1963), achieving a BAFTA nomination for Best British Film Actress. She
also appeared in the film comedy Crooks in Cloisters (1964), the fantasy
film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) and in the sitcoms The Rag Trade and
Wild, Wild Women. Windsor appeared as “Saucy Nancy” in the second series
of the ITV children's programme Worzel Gummidge (1980), based on the
books by Barbara Euphan Todd.